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Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by soupfordummies »

5o1ecist wrote: post #85
soupfordummies wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

while this is cool and I want to play with it myself, it's still sort of discounting the overhead here of installing python, installing tkinter, adding shortcuts to the program within Windows, etc. Of course the barrier to creating bespoke tools is lower but it's also still a decent bit of overhead and not just "hey AI, create me a Notepad clone that works like it used to". Arguably it's still more intensive than goo…

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Yeah that’s fair.

It’s also sort of a given that anyone on this site is pretty well versed with technical stuff so maybe results would vary with Tina over in HR, for instance.

I think that sort of “last mile” problem is what agents like claw etc are supposed to help with.

Also, any reason you prefer Perplexity? Haven’t really used that one before TBH

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

lunar_rover wrote: post #185
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn’t VSCode be a better alternative to wordpad?

VSCode needs Electron which is too big IMO. It's also a specialised code editor instead of a general text editor, with features like builtin terminal and traditional menus instead of ribbons.

Isn’t notepad now react?

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by notepad0x90 »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #316
notepad0x90 wrote: post #249

notepad is supposed to be like the 'nano' for windows. it's already bloated. But this is just following a pattern, the enshittified even calc.exe and mspaint. Previewing pictures in windows is shamefully slow because the previewer is also a bloat. My diagnosis is that Microsoft doesn't have good technical leadership. It has spread the risk of bad decisions by individual leaders by spreading it amongst too many decisi…

> You know how they name everything terribly? that's trying to capitalize on existing branding. It's funny because they are actively destroying existing branding these days. Like how they renamed Office after their failed AI assistant, rather than the other way around.

Everything is copilot, so much so that I don't even know what copilot is.

From the security side, everything is Microsoft Defender. When talking to people I have to say things like "defender but the AV thing that's on by default, not the paid cloud thingy, and by that I don't mean the cloud protection one but the thing that protects endpoints using cloud stuff". They can't come up with good names and they confuse the crap out of their users. I hate to say it's just MBAs, since I don't really know but that'd be my guess. Someone at an Ivy league school somewhere is perpetuating this perhaps?

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #177
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn’t VSCode be a better alternative to wordpad?

vscode requires downloading all the plugins on top, which is bothersome wordpad is all-included on its own

People using markdown are probably also using vscode. It’s not like vscode couldn’t come bundled with markdown support if it doesn’t already.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by al_borland »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #57

Markdown support isn't a bad idea, actually, as long as they don't break the most important (IMO) property of Notepad: binary WYSIWYG . I.e. if I type in some plain text and then open the file with anything else (including after moving to another machine/platform, or even viewing raw data stream in transit or on drive), I can trust to see that text, as is, and nothing else . In particular, if I restrict myself to low…

Notepad being a plain text editor, it always supported markdown. Versions of notepad from the 80s would be able to open and edit markdown, as it’s just plain text.

Apps like classic notepad are useful to have around, when apps that try to parse things like markdown get it wrong and the underlying file needs to be fixed.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by [deleted] »

perching_aix wrote: post #273
j2kun wrote: post #189

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This is my favorite part of this story. Do you want remote code execution? Because [fixing things that aren't broken] is how you get remote code execution.

I thought it is by introducing an RCE vulnerability that you get an RCE vulnerability. I'm being facetious of course, but this recent rhetorical trend of people confidently vouching for "pet" in "pet vs. cattle" is not a sustainable decision, even if it's admittedly plain practical on the short to medium run, or in given contexts even longer. It's just a dangerous and irresponsible lesson to blindly repeat I think. C…

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Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by tfvlrue »

red_admiral wrote: post #201

Once upon a time, you could strip formatting from the clipboard in notepad with ^V ^A ^C, for example if you were trying to paste from edge into word. There's still a market for a non-rich text editor, without autosave, cloud, account login or AI.

I've been using this AutoHotKey script long enough that Ctrl+Shift+V has become a muscle memory for "paste without formatting". In case it's useful to anyone else, put this in a file (clipboard.ahk) and run it at startup:

  ^+v::
  Clipboard:=Clipboard
  Send ^v
That way, it works globally, it's not dependent on any particular application implementing it.
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